It is that time of year again. Every Fall I start gearing up for the holidays. I enjoy them all, Thanksgiving, New Years, Christmas, and yes even that infamous Halloween. On the subject of Halloween I hooked up my PS2 last night and decided to watch a DVD just for fun. The DVD I picked of course was A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4: The Dream Master. I usually pick this as my go-to thriller when I am in the mood for getting my 80’s slasher fix. Every time I watch this movie I am always amused by the whole presence of MTV in this film, there is no doubt about it Freddy Kruger pretty much defines the whole “MTV generation.”
Why am I bringing this up then? Earlier this summer we had another big dose of 80’s retro hit theaters. First there was the video game themed Adam Sandler romp, Pixels. Love him or hate him Sandler does one thing better than anyone, 80’s nostalgia, going all the way back to The Wedding Singer. That was a nice little dose of 80’s retro to get the juices flowing. Top that off with some Straight Outta Compton featuring the coming up story of the infamous, and equally MTV defining N.W.A and you have 2015 set to be another big 80’s throw back year. But no that isn’t even the biggest 80’s throw back coming this year, of course I am talking about the Return of the Star Wars crew coming to a theater near you. Very few movies actively get me as excited as a new Star Wars film but this is going to be huge. As a kid growing up in the 80’s Star Wars pretty much dominated everything that decade, everything that wasn’t touched by Freddy Krueger that is.
While I am still planning on seeing both Pixels and Straight Outta Compton at some point, it is the new Star Wars that I am most interested in. That said, I do think that it might be time to start looking towards the future and finally letting the past just be the past. Between Girl Meets World on Disney, the upcoming Fuller House on Netflix, to the Home Improvement “remix” better known as Last Man Standing, this 90’s revival hasn’t been nearly as satisfying to me as the 80’s revivals of the recent years. Maybe it is nostalgia but I always felt like the 80’s were just a more all around fun decade than the 90’s. In the 80’s you could dye your hair pink and purple and get away with it, all we had in the 90’s were some Gothic wannabe’s devolving into the emo craze that culminated in the disastrous third Spider-Man film. Whatever, there is a new Star Wars movie and next year we get a new Mallrats film so I am happy with that.
Stephanie Bri 